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DOI: 10.1177/0891241603257605 © 2003 SAGE Publications A "Know It All" with a "Pet Peeve" Meets "Underdogs" Who "Let Her Have It"Producing Low-Waged Women Workers in a Welfare-to-Work Training ProgramThe University of Vermont While welfare-to-workprograms are put in place and organized by state structures, they occur locally. The program practices designed to ready women receiving welfare benefits for employment are largely negotiated between trainers and trainees meeting together at program sites. In this article, the author draws from the ethnographic data she collected as a participant-observer in a nursing assistant welfare-to-worktraining program and focuses on the informal use of formal class time that the nurse trainer established to address trainee workobstacles. The author’s analysis shows linkages between the trainers and the trainees in terms of their social locations, the problems of workthey faced, and the methods of negotiation they used to meet and resist program goals. The ethnographic data reveal how the trainer and trainees process administrative and subjugated logics, particularly so that "mothering" and "sistering" are used to screen poor women in and out of employment and prepare them for low-waged jobs in the nursing home industry.
Key Words: welfare-to-work • informal processes • frontline workers • institutional ethnography • administrative logic
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